Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

migrants III NEW j OEk udfDOE.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN and Jay Gould ar
rived at Queenstown, Ireland, on the 9th,
after somewhat rough passages.
! THE remains of Jenny Lind were in
tered at Malvern, England, on the 9TH.
WILLIAM WILKINS, of Noblesville, Ind,
was arrested at Rome City, Ind, on the
9th, on a charge of counterfeiting. His
speciality was nickels.
ONE of the principal mining firms in the
Hazelton (Pa.) district announced on the
9th that the advance in wages demanded
by the striking miners would be conceded
Hon. ALLEN G.. THURMAN delivered an
address on the evening of the 9th 70 the
Thurman Club of Columbus, O.
The brass-workers' lockout in New
York has come to an end, the workmen
having acceded to the terms of the as
sociation of manufacturers.
ROBERT WILSON, bad man, was shot
and killed on the evening of the 9Th, at
Cincinnati, while endeavoring to escape
from arrest.
JAMES JAMBoR, of Milwaukee, Wis, was
convicted at Racine on the 9th of having
attempted the life of ex-Mayor Secor
with a dynamite bomb in the summer of
1885.
audience of over five thousand people at
Music Hall, Cleveland, o., on the night of
the 9TH
A BALL given in honor of President DiaZ
by the principal bankers and capitalists
of the Mexican capital took place in the
National palace at the City of Mexico on
the evening of the 9TH.
WRECK occurred on the Southern
Pacific railroad on the evening of the 9th.
Engineer Jack Bownell and Howard
Brummell, a machinist, who was oD the
engine, were killed.
JAS O'RoURKE, Of the New York Base
Ball Club, was admitted to the bar at New
Haven, Conn, ON the 9Th. He has not de-
cided whether to play ball next season or
not.
THE illness of Emperor William of Ger
many is causing more anxiety than is
allowed to appear on the surface in Berlin
court circles.
CABINET changes are not likely to occur
until after the assembling of Congress, is
the present prevalent opinion at Wash
ington.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made on
the 9th by the Tullamore lIreland) Jail
authorities to put a prison suit on Will
lam O'Brien.
DETECTIVES have lodged in jail at Read
ing, Pa, VIM. sF1it, Edward Youse and
Adam Miller, three well-known police
characters, charged with passing counter
felt money-notes and coin.
A STORY of revolving barbarity comes
from Washington, detailing sufferings
and tortures of the crime of '"shanghaiing"
practised on number of persons enticed
aboard oyster boats on the Maryland
coast.
The Albert Lea Mimi roller mills,
which caught fire about eleven O'Clock on
the night of the 9TH, were burned to the
ground, and the buildings, as well as most
of the machinery, was a total loss. There
were about 5000 bushels of wheat in the
elevator, and the total loss is fully $4,000.
The insurance foots up $780, goo.
THE Fifth National Bank of st. Lonis, of
which ex-Mayor Overstolz IS president,
closed its doors on the afternoon of the
7th.
FULL details are published of the dis
covery of a prehistoric city in Arizona by
Prof. F. Il. Cushman.
BARON WoLvERToN, who died on the
9th, at Brighton, England, left f10e,000 to
aid the Irish Home.Rule cause.
A LARGE force of regular troops passed
through Omaha on the 7th en- route from
Western posts to Chicago.
TWENTY SIX horses were burned up on
the morning of the 7th in John Reese's
stable at Omaha, Neb.; loss 5000.
THE time over the Pacific roads between
Omaha and San Francisco has been short
sened fifteen hours and thirty minutes.
Dr. MAKENzIE has made another exam
ination Of the German Crown Princes
throat and finds its condition worse.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the British rep
resentative on the fisheries settlement
conferences, arrived at New York on the
7th, on the Etruria.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN arrived in London on
the 7th, and at once notified Charley
Mitchell of his readiness to arrange
fight with him. ts.5tA
The War and interior departments at
Washington have received official infor-
nation of the killing Of Sword Bearer,
the Grow Indian chief.
DHULEEP SINGH has sent a telegram to
the Nizam of Hyderabad in-which he says
he was mistaken in giving sixty lacs of
rupees to England, because India will be
taken by Russia.
THE Henry George party won the cleo
tion-inspector case in New York City.
Chief Inspector OBrlen got himself into
trouble by bit of sharp and ''too previ-
ous'' work.
GENERAL F. c. LATRoBE was formally
inaugurated mayor of Baltimore on the
7th. This is the fifth time General Latrobe
has been elected mayo of Baltimore.
JosEPH LAWN, while drunk and sleep
ing in stage coach at Omaha, on the 7th,
set fire to the straw in the bottom and was
burned to death.
M. B. FOSTER was arrested at Nebraska
CITY, Neb ION the 7th, charged with mur-
der in Taylor County, la. No particulars
of the crime are obtainable at present.
Barring Bros, of London, have under
taken to aid the Steam Navigation Com
pany. of Genoa, to establish line of
Steamships between Genoa and the mouth
Of the River Plata, the passage to occupy
seventeen days.
JoHN NIGLUTsCH, an active Republican
politician and exlnember of the State
Legislature committed suicide at New
York on the 7th. He harbored halluci-
nation that the Anarchists were pursuing
min to kill him. -as
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